This book engages with the essential themes and emergent ideas in Strategic Human Resource Management. Acknowledgements, Preface, Introduction, SHRM: A New Way of Managing, The Nature and Origins and Implications of SHRM, Linking Organizational and Human Resource Strategies, SHRM in a Global Context, Managing Performance, Performance Management Strategies, Training and Development Strategies, International Human Resource Strategies, Managing Structures, Organizational Structuring and Restructuring, Beyond Organizational Structure: The End of Classical Forms?, Employment Relations, Managing Learning, Learning Organizations, Promoting Learning in Organizations, Managing the Process of Training and Development, Managing Change, Change Management Strategies and Assumptions, Change Management Choices and Outcomes, The Role of Culture in Organizational Performance, The Possibilities of Culture Change, Managing Learning, Some Key Difficulties, SHRM - The Redefining of People and Organizations, Index.